Trump’s Picks for Treasury and Commerce
Steven Mnuchin, Donald Trump’s pick for Treasury secretary, and Wilbur Ross Jr., his pick for Commerce, discuss taxes, economic growth and trade.
By CNBC on November 30, 2016. Photo by CNBC. Watch in Times Video »
In a campaign commercial that ran just before the election, Donald J. Trump’s voice boomed over a series of Wall Street images. He described “a global power structure that is responsible for the economic decisions that have robbed our working class, stripped our country of its wealth, and put that money into the pockets of a handful of large corporations.”
The New York Stock Exchange, the hedge fund billionaire George Soros and the chief executive of the investment bank Goldman Sachs flashed across the screen.
